James Huang Graph is more than a thousand words They say a graph is more than a thousand words. I totally agree with it. I would prefer to look at a network graph, rather than reading through lengthy documents or a bunch of excel, to understand a c...
James Huang Our own Transformation MERCURY's business partner occasionally ask me: What do MERCURY do? It seems to them we do almost everything in IT segment. In reality, we keep transforming. Business transformation programs have long...
James Huang The 10,000 Hour Rule Is Wrong: How to Really Master a Skill I made people wonder why I can learn and implement/ execute so many things quickly. Do I ever sleep? The 10,000 Hour Rule In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell published his New York Times bestseller, Outliers . ...
James Huang The future of Brands, as a Service (BaaS) Brands provide meaning, services provide utility. A Brand Service combines both and create a useful service that communicates the benefits of the brand. I believe we need a way of making a genuine con...
James Huang Is learning English an important part of learning a programming language? We have an interesting discussion today in office: James : It is not about English. It is all about communication . Language as a tool for communication is the key. All programming aims to resolve iss...
James Huang Execution Success Achieving success in today’s world has become less chance and more hard work. You hear more stories every day about people who were born with nothing but managed to achieve success in their lives. Ach...
James Huang Identify (and Lose) Bad Customers We all know bad customers are unpleasant to deal with. The consequences of bad customers can reach into other aspects of your business, too. They contribute to churn when they don’t listen to you and ...
James Huang Why Building Community Matters in Ecommerce? Your products don’t sell themselves. As an ecommerce owner, it’s up to you to develop and launch marketing strategies that help your target audience better understand what problem you’re addressing, w...
James Huang Stay Relevant and change the Business Model Everything feels different in the world of marketing/ advertising because everything IS different in the world of marketing/ advertising. We’ve always hesitated to call MERCURY as an IT/ consultant co...
James Huang COVID, acceleration of transformation in Arts & Culture One of the most distinctive outcomes of the crisis for the cultural sector is that it shrunk the global to fit our computer screens and made local events resound globally. The digital or immaterial be...
James Huang Double VPN and when should you use it? Double VPN is a feature that uses two VPN servers instead of one. Also known as multi-hop, this VPN server chaining method gives extra security and privacy. Despite that, the majority of VPN providers...
James Huang Journalism under fire The last ten years were defined by the twin technological disruptions of mobile and social media, which fragmented attention, undermined advertising-based business models, and weakened the role of jou...